• DocumentCode
    2068489
  • Title

    A current mode sense amplifier with self-compensation circuit for SRAM application

  • Author

    Heqing Xu ; Song Jia ; Jiyu Chen ; Yuan Wang ; Gang Du

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microelectron., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    28-31 Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A current mode sense amplifier which is proved to achieve low power and high speed is presented. Its sensing delay is independent of the bitline capacitances. It utilizes self-compensation circuit, hence improving the sensing speed and reliability of the existing sense amplifier. Simulation results based on the 1V/65nm CMOS process have verified the proposed design outperforms the original scheme in comparison by 32.4% in terms of speed and 6.5% in terms of power consumption.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; SRAM chips; amplifiers; circuit reliability; current-mode circuits; low-power electronics; CMOS process; SRAM; bitline capacitances; current mode sense amplifier; power consumption; self-compensation circuit; sensing delay; size 65 nm; voltage 1 V; Capacitance; Educational institutions; Integrated circuit reliability; Microelectronics; Random access memory; Sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    ASIC (ASICON), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shenzhen
  • ISSN
    2162-7541
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6415-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASICON.2013.6812020
  • Filename
    6812020